[Joe-Z]

I find your last paragraph very interesting. May I ask, did you make that move yourself and, if so, where to?

In my daily work I often refactor an old, organically grown, codebase and that's exactly what I do:

I try to think of what the system actually is / should be and try to put this in code in as concise terms as possible (that's kind of a general description of software development, but I just wanted to contrast this to simply hammering in the quickest fix you can think of). A lot of times I wonder though, if that is really what is needed and a simple 'prototyper' kind-of-developer would get the job done faster, although maybe not as elegantly (slight humble-brag there).